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Fossil of the Day': The award went to Canada after statements by their environment minister Peter Kent that they are coming to Durban to 'play hardball' with developing countries. ‘Emerging and developing countries need to stop 'wielding the historical guilty card' and asking for a free pass on emissions reductions just because in the past, industrialised countries had more emissions than the rest of the world’.

From left to right: David Turnbull, CAN director, Rashmi Mistry, Oxfam, Mohamed Adow, Christian Aid, Tove Ryding, Greenpeace International discussing civil society reflections on the first day of COP17

Dessima Williams, representative of Grenada to the UN, holds a press conference with Al Binger (off camera), adviser to the small island developing states (SIDS) group on climate change, to discuss their position ahead of the conference